Why Mathematica does not simplify sinh(arccosh(x))(johndcook.com)

141 points by ibobev 7 months ago | 54 comments

Base58 versus Base85 Encoding(johndcook.com)

12 points by zdw 1 year ago | 3 comments

Mathematical minimalism(johndcook.com)

27 points by chmaynard 6 months ago | 1 comments

The Buenos Aires Constant(johndcook.com)

103 points by zdw 1 year ago | 43 comments

Every factorial approximates a power(johndcook.com)

156 points by warrenm 3 years ago | 62 comments

Tetrahedral Analog of the Pythagorean Theorem(johndcook.com)

10 points by ibobev 11 months ago | 1 comments

Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades(debugbear.com)

338 points by jgx0 20 days ago | 229 comments

A DebugBear blog post examining the recent redesign of example.com, the IANA-reserved documentation domain, and the history of its visual appearance over 20+ years.

The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction(righto.com)

102 points by pwg 8 days ago | 33 comments

Ken Shirriff blog post examining the Intel 8087 coprocessor's microcode and circuitry for floating-point addition and subtraction, including special cases.

Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?(alexwennerberg.com)

384 points by epestr 12 days ago | 362 comments

Blog post by Alex Wennerberg arguing that rationalist community blog posts are excessively long and that verbosity substitutes for thoroughness.

When Ldaxr Doesn't Work: Exclusive Accesses and Cacheability on AArch64(joelsiks.com)

17 points by joelsiks 16 days ago | 2 comments

Blog post explaining why the ldaxr exclusive load instruction can fail on AArch64 depending on memory types, attributes, and cacheability, via a spin lock example.

Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why(journal.james-zhan.com)

381 points by nafnlj 10 months ago | 163 comments

A personal blog post by James Zhan describing how Google de-indexed his entire Bear Blog a month after he started it, with no apparent reason.

google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update(autom.dev)

631 points by 1e1a 1 month ago | 488 comments

Autom blog post explaining that Google Search now rewrites organic result links to google.com/goto redirect URLs, affecting scrapers.